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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A new state report says Virginia’s economy continued to grow at a slower rate than the rest of the country in fiscal year 2018. Virginia’s latest Comprehensive Annual Financial Report says the state continues to fall behind the nation in most areas. Personal income grew 4.1 percent in Virginia compared to […]

STAUNTON, Va. (AP) — The first thing you need to know is: they’re here because you’re here. They wait in one of December’s empty trees, on the high edge of a neighborhood hill on Fillmore Street, looking ungainly even at rest, like the unwanted ornaments still attached to the Christmas tree dragged curbside. One near […]

For the first time in over a decade, Pulaski County’s debt per capita now exceeds the state average. That was one finding of a draft report of an annual audit of the county’s books by Robinson, Farmer, Cox Associates of Blacksburg. The audit is for the county’s last complete fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When it comes to marijuana, Virginia has lagged behind many states where the drug has been decriminalized or legalized for recreational use. With lawmakers approving an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program in 2018, supporters of decriminalization are hoping that momentum will continue in 2019. But Virginia Republicans don’t appear […]

AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq (AP) — President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died during the recent war. It comes a week after Trump stunned his national security advisers by […]

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — If he were laying odds, state Sen. Chap Petersen would like the chances that Virginia’s General Assembly will legalize sports gambling. “I’ve talked to a couple people who are not crazy about it, starting with my mother,” said Petersen, a Fairfax Democrat. “But I don’t think the moral stigma is […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginians bought more alcohol in the state’s beverage control stores and restaurants as the state agency saw record sales for the 20th year in a row. The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority said in a new report that its total sales were $983.3 million in fiscal year 2018. That’s up $43 […]

Luke 2:1-20 King James Version (KJV) 2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph […]

Virginia State Police Trooper J.C. Reynolds is investigating a fatal crash in Giles County. The crash occurred Dec. 21, 2018 at 12:43 a.m. at the intersection of Route 460 and Route 626 in the Town of Pembroke. A 2015 Hyundai Elantra was traveling west on Route 460 when it ran off the left side of […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has called on state lawmakers to end the suspension of driver’s licenses of people with unpaid criminal or traffic court debt. During a speech on his state budget plan this week, Northam said people often don’t pay court costs because they can’t afford it. He said suspending […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung. It’s Ginsburg’s third bout with cancer since she joined the court in 1993. The court says the 85-year-old Ginsburg had the surgery Friday in New York and will remain in the hospital for […]

PULASKI, Va. (AP) — The Virginia woman whose felony child abuse conviction in her 5-year-old son’s septic tank drowning death was reversed has had five years of probation trimmed from her sentence. The Roanoke Times reports an amended sentence filed Nov. 20 marks the end of the case of the death of Noah Thomas, who […]